Indeed. It is normally described as the Dunne-Huntington triplane, but because the foremost plane is smaller than the others, it is sometimes called a canard biplane with extreme stagger; it could also be described as a monoplane with three surfaces. After re-engining for more power, it flew successfully.
Dunne's life story, in brief: he enlisted as a trooper for the Second South African War, and was invalided home; commissioned, he went out again, and was again invalided with a heart condition, and turned to designing the swept wing tailless designs for which he is well known. He wrote the book on fly fishing, before turning to an attempt to reconcile the new ideas of time generated by the theory of relativity with parapsychology (which was at the time thought worthy of investigation by serious people); the first of his books on that is An Experiment with Time, which is, although wrong, quite rational and devoid of woo. At the age of 52 he married Miss Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, and they had two children; stories he told them were published as The Jumping Lions of Borneo. The sort of life that makes one feel a little inadequate.
Oh, apparently it really was turned into a pergola in 1914.
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